The Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna has been established by Bihar Act 24, 2008. Aryabhatta Knowledge University (Amendment) Act, 2021 provides to establish and incorporate a University to achieve excellence in teaching, to promote and augment research in Professional Education and new frontiers of learning and knowledge and to conduct and facilitate affiliation of institutions set up by the State Government or Trust or Society in the fields of Nanotechnology, Astronomy, Environmental Science and Climate Change, River Studies, Economics, Journalism and mass Communication, Geographical Studies, Non-Conventional Energy, Art and Culture, Philosophy, Stem Cell Technology, Archaeology and Curatorial Studies and others.
